Hello and welcome to another blog.
Yes I am writing this blog at 22:40 at night because my son is with his father and so I want to make the most of the free time I have, to catch up on my blogs.
On Sunday as many of you may have remembered that it is Fathers Day, and so I thought I would write a blog to celebrate it. My father well biological father is now in heaven, well I hope he made it up there and died a couple of years ago, and to say I miss him is an understatement.
The man could have me crying with laughter or with sadness, there was rarely anything in between, but he played a huge part of my life as a London kid, who lived in a housing estate in Hammersmith, and helped me to toughen up, as being a short arse I was always an easy target for other kids to pick on.
I remember my dad bringing me into the living room and showing me how to throw a punch and if someone hit me to always hit them back. I know some parents may disapprove of this kind of parenting now, but it was a different time back then and as there was only 4 channels and no internet our play area was the estate.
My brother and I had a good bringing up, we made mistakes like most kids but we never went without and still had good decent meals on the table even if was cooked by our dad.
The weekends I loved as I would spend Saturdays mainly with my grandparents and Sundays in the pub, and yes I am talking from about from birth until I was about 16.
That was the way of life back then, Sundays were spent in the Magpie and Stump, Parmestan, The Riley, The Bedford, The Wilton or The Waterat. You name it we were in there, as kids drinking orange juice, coke or even sometimes a shandy.
Like I say as a child before the internet and new pub rules applied, it was normal for kids to hang out in pubs just like their parents.
Our dad would take us on our bikes and we would cycle along the River Thames feeding the ducks and swans as we left or play pitch n put in Bishops Park.
With the lockdown of course there hasn’t been anything open and will be a different type of Father’s Day this year, as we still having to follow social distancing rules, but I hope that you get to spend time with your dads, as now I no longer have a dad as such, you do find that you do miss them a lot.
So lets raise our glasses to our dads, whether dead of alive and have a wonderful fathers day.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
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